Principal DevOps Engineer (Azure+PowerShell)

WHAT MAKES US US

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At its foundation SimCorp is guided by our values caring customer success-driven collaborative curious and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development relationship building and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow feel heard valued and empowered.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

We are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with expertise in automation Infrastructure as Code and Azure cloud this role you will shape the reliability scalability and efficiency of our cloud platforms leading by example in designing frameworks eliminating toil and mentoring others. You will work closely with SRE DevOps and security teams to drive best practices across automation observability CI/CD and identity and access management

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Lead the design and implementation of automation frameworks for infrastructure and application delivery using Terraform and modern CI/CD practices.
• Define and evolve pipelines.
• Architect and implement self healing mechanisms that allow systems to automatically detect remediate and recover from failures without human intervention.
• Champion observability practices by building reliable monitoring logging and alerting solutions with a preference for DataDog.
• Eliminate toil through proactive automation process improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Drive a zero-tolerance approach to vulnerabilities ensuring infrastructure and pipelines are secured by design and continuously monitored for weaknesses.
• Guide secret management and IAM strategy ensuring secure scalable and compliant access to cloud resources.
• Identify automation candidates by managing support cases within the incident management process taking ownership of client-reported issues and providing up to Level-3 support to troubleshoot diagnose and resolve problems with the Client Reporting Platform.
• Automate regular maintenance and upgrade work such as Windows Server patching infrastructure and application upgrades license management service and system restart.
• Follow guiding principle of self service enablement first for service requests for internal and external clients such as environment refreshes data migrations deploying Virtual Machine resources and installing whitelisted software.
• Act as a trusted advisor for engineering and operations teams teaching sysadmins and engineers how to extend and maintain automation frameworks.
• Provide technical mentorship across the SRE team and partner functions.
• Collaborate with product and platform stakeholders to ensure reliability security and resilience are baked into design decisions.
• Provide on-call support outside of regular working hours including evenings weekends and holidays.

WHAT WE VALUE

Most importantly you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

• 57 years of hands-on experience in automation Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD engineering demonstrated through project delivery tooling implementation and measurable improvements in deployment or operational efficiency.

• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure automation.

• Experience with Windows network/system administration including Active Directory Domain Services (DNS DFS GPO) Remote Desktop Services IIS (incl. SSL Certificates).

• Solid software engineering mindset and background.

• Experience with self healing architectures and designing fault tolerant systems.

• Knowledge and experience of core networking principles such as IP addressing routing VPNs and layer 3 and 7 of the OSI model.

• Extensive experience in observability and monitoring preferably with DataDog
• Skilled in secret management and identity/access management in cloud environments.

• Deep understanding of Azure Cloud services and certified as an Azure Solutions Architect.

• Demonstrated ability to teach and mentor sysadmins and engineers enabling them to adopt automation-first approaches.

• Success of identifying and eliminating toil at scale.

• Comprehensive knowledge of cloud security practices and ability to enforce zero-tolerance for vulnerabilities in infrastructure and pipelines.

• Experience in PowerShell scripting and automation.

• Familiarity of Site Reliability Engineering framework

Experience of Administering Microsoft Azure Public CloudIaaS resources and have experience with some or all of thefollowing:

• Virtual Machines
• Storage Accounts
• Key Vaults
• Load balancers
• VNET subnets NICs and route tables
• Public IP addressing
• Monitor
• Log Analytics
• BLOB Storage
• Entra ID

BENEFITS

Attractive salary bonus scheme and pension are essential for any work agreement. However in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore in addition to the traditional benefit scheme we provide a good work and life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. And opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

NEXT STEP

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo age or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Pawe Andrzejewski Talent Acquisition Partner at If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyones experience positive and valuable. Therefore during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback which is highly appreciated.

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the worlds leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3000 colleagues with a broad range of nationalities educations professional experiences ages and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Brse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading full front-to-back offering for our clients.

SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

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